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Office Ass't Sup't R.F. & A.L.
AND PROVOST MARSHAL.
County, Va.,        1866.

The nature of the relief also varies, articles of clothing and some times a stated amount of provisions pr month  Aid is always given by the overseers in such cases with reference to the actual necessity of the applicants, and their means of relief from other sources.  Those paupers who are entirely destitute and without [[strikethrough]] means [[/strikethrough]] friends and relatives to extend to them partial assistance are removed by authority of the overseer in whose district they belong; to the poor house, where uniform support is extended them, where they are provided with clothing food and lodgings, and where such work is required of them as their physical strength will respectively admit.  The Board has no power to elect as to what number of colored paupers will be provided for by it, but is required by law to extend relief to all in actual need of it in the manner above described. -

III  That the Board are under the control of fixed, stated, laws and is therefore powerless to prescribe for itself any prescribed rule of action at variance with that Law.

IV  The taxes are assessed by the County Court upon all persons over the age of sixteen, for the year 1865 Tax was $4- pr head, upon all male persons.  It has not been assessed for the year 1866, and will not be till the June term

Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt,
(signed) Geo. H. French
Lt and Asst. Supt. R.F. and A.L.
Accomack Va

True Copy
A.S. Flagg
Capt. A.Q.M. & Supt.